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Brenner, Dr. Susanne
Associate Director for Academic Affairs for the CCT; Professor

Room 330, Johnston Hall
Department: Mathematics
[email-address]

Faculty

Aksoylu, Burak
Assistant Professor

Room 333, Johnston Hall
Department: Mathematics
+1 225 578 8984
[email-address]

http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~burak/

Burak Aksoylu, assistant professor, joined the LSU faculty from the University of Texas at Austin where he served as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences. Aksoylu received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California, San Diego. His research interests include numerical solutions to PDE, scientific computation, multilevel preconditioners.

	Allen, Gabrielle Associate Professor Room 305, Johnston Hall Department: Computer Science +1 225 578 6955 http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~gallen/
Gabrielle Allen is an associate professor in computer science. She received her Ph.D. in computational astrophysics from Cardiff University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics and led its efforts in computational science for a number of years before joining CCT.

	Iyengar, Sitharama Roy Paul Daniels Professor Department: Computer Science +1 225 578 1495
Dr. Iyengar is the chairman of LSU's computer science department and Roy Paul Daniels Professor of Computer Science.

Karki, Bijaya
Assistant Professor

[email-address]

	Kosar, Tevfik Assistant Professor Room 333, Johnston Hall Department: Computer Science +1 225 578 8983 http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~kosar/
Tevfik Kosar is assistant professor in computer science. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research interests include distributed systems, grid and collaborative computing; data intensive distributed computing; resource allocation and management; fault tolerance; coordination of computation and I/O in distributed systems.

Ott, Dr. Christian
Adjunct Assistant Professor

[email-address]

	Saylor, Paul Professor Room 330, Johnston Hall Department: Mathematics +1 225 578 8108
Paul Saylor is a professor of mathematics. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Rice University. His research interests include scientific computing and numerical analysis.

Sung, Li-yeng
Professor

Department: Mathematics
[email-address]

	Ullmer, Brygg Assistant Professor Room 331, Frey CSC Department: Computer Science +1 225 578 0813 http://csc.lsu.edu/~ullmer/
Brygg Ullmer is an assistant professor, jointly at CCT and in computer science. He received his Ph.D. in Media Arts and Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT Media Laboratory). He leads visualization and human-computer interaction efforts at CCT, including the Tangible Visualization group (jointly in CCT and CS).

Wan, Xiaoliang
Assistant Professor

Room 235, Johnston Hall
+1 225 578 6966
[email-address]

Zhang, Hangchao
Assistant Professor

Room 226, Johnston hall
Department: Mathematics
+1 225 578 0828
[email-address]

www.math.lsu.edu/~hozhang

Post-doctoral Researchers

Barker, Andrew
Post Doctoral Researcher

Room 332, Johnston Hall
+1 225 578 7083
[email-address]

Branton, Christopher
Post Doctoral Researcher

[email-address]

Gudi, Dr. Thirupathi
Post Doctoral Researcher

Room 332, Johnston Hall
Department: Mathematics
+1 225 578 8908
[email-address]

Faculty Advisor: Susanne Brenner

Neilan, Michael
Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher

Room 332, Johnston Hall
Department: Center for Computation & Technology
+1 225 578 7073
[email-address]

Faculty Advisor: Susanne Brenner
http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~neilan

Park, Eun-Hee
Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher

Room 332, Johnston Hall
+1 225 578 0129
[email-address]

Staff

Benger, Dr. Werner
Scientific Visualization at LCAT
IT Analyst 3

Room 211, Johnston Hall
Department: Center for Computation & Technology
+1 225 578 4809
[email-address]

http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~werner/

Werner's primary expertise is visualization of general relativity, ranging from gravitational lensing to scientific visualization of dynamical simulations of gravitational waves utilizing advanced Grid technology. His techniques can well be applied to other domains such as medical imaging.

He graduated with distinction in astronomy at the University of Innsbruck in 1997. The same year he joined the Zuse Institute for Information Technology in Berlin in a joint position with the Max-Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, the Albert-Einstein Institute, Potsdam. There he worked on extending and applying the in-house medical visualization software system (the now commercially available Amira software) to astrophysical data sets from numerical relativity. He received his Ph.D. "Magna Cum Laude" in Mathematics and Computer Science from the Free University of Berlin for research on a unifying model for scientific data and visualization techniques for tensor fields. His images appeared in many magazines, journal covers, TV broadcasts and artistic events.

Brandt, Steven
Staff
IT Consultant

Room 231, Johnston Hall
Department: Center for Computation & Technology
+1 225 578 5431
[email-address]

http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~sbrandt/

Steven Brandt obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana for his research in numerical simulations of rotating black holes. After obtaining his Ph.D. and doing some postdoctoral work, he joined industry where he gained experience in corporate programming environments. In 2005 he joined CCT and has been looking into ways to improve programming tools and environments for parallel environments, managing allocations and maintenance on Supermike, and in rekindling his research efforts in numerical relativity.

	Ge, Dr. Jinghua Visualization Consultant IT Consultant Room 5, Johnston Hall Department: Center for Computation & Technology +1 225 578 7789 http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~jinghuage
Jinghua Ge is a computational visualization environment consultant at CCT. She graduated with a Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Illinois at Chicago at 2007. Her research interests include distributed visualization of large scale datasets, remote visualization pipeline, computer graphics, and virtual reality.

Hutanu, Andrei
IT Consultant

Room 350, Johnston Hall
Department: Center for Computation & Technology
+1 225 578 0811
[email-address]

http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~ahutanu

Andrei Hutanu graduated in 2002 and received his engineering diploma in Computer Science from
Politehnica University of Bucharest. Currently he is a researcher in the Grid and Visualization departments of the Center for Computation & Technology at Louisiana State University. Prior to this he was employed for two years as a researcher in the Visualization department of the Zuse Institute Berlin. His research interests are distributed interactive visualization, data management and optical network applications.

Kaiser, Carola
IT Analyst 3

Room 3191, Energy, Coast, & Environment
+1 225 578 2893
[email-address]

Carola works in a joint position at CCT and WBI to build a bridge between CCT's computational services and tools and WBI's CLEAR coastal modeling applications.

She has been working with Geographic Information Systems since 1992, after obtaining a MS in cartography from the University of Dresden, Germany.
Her research interests include managing spatial data, developing technologies for data implementation, and applying GIS systems in specific research disciplines and collaborative environments.

Kelley, Ian
IT Analyst

Room 332, Johnston Hall
Department: Center for Computation & Technology
[email-address]

http://www.kelley.tv/

Ian has been working in distributed systems and Grid computing since 1999, first at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics and now here at CCT.

His primary interests are in helping to bridge the gap between end-users and the services and tools that are being developed within the research community. To this end, Ian hopes to bring some of the advances in P2P and Grid technology into the space that a user can effectively utilize them for his or her research. He has been working since 2001 on building Collaborative Environments (namely portals) and Testing Frameworks for this purpose.

Merzky, Andre
IT Analyst 3

Room Wollin 36, 17291 Randowtal, Germany
Department: Computer Science
+493986264864
[email-address]

Supervisor: Shantenu Jha
http://www.merzky.net

Topcu, Ahmet
IT Consultant

Room 350, Johnston Hall
+1 225 578 8931
[email-address]

Graduate Students

Balman, Mehmet
Graduate Research Assistant

Room 233, Johnston Hall
Department: Computer Science
[email-address]

Faculty Advisor: Tevfik Kosar
http://www.csc.lsu.edu/~balman

Mehmet Balman is a doctoral candidate in computer science at Louisiana State University. He received his bachelor of science and master of science degree in computer engineering from Bogazici University. He got exposed to several years of industrial experience as system administrator and R&D specialist, at various software companies before joining LSU. He also worked as a summer intern in Los Alamos National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He has been working in the development of Stork data placement scheduler, PetaShare, and Cybertools projects at CCT. His research interests include high performance scientific computing, distributed data management and job scheduling in widely distributed systems.

Cui, Jintao

[email-address]

Supervisor: Susanne Brenner

Duff, Richard
Graduate Student

Room 328, Johnston Hall
Department: Petroleum Engineering
[email-address]

Faculty Advisor: Gabrielle Allen

Richard received his MS and BS in Petroleum Engineering from University of Missouri Rolla. He has worked in drilling, stimulation, simulation, cutting, tool design, application development, manufacturing optimization, logistics, 3-D modeling, rock mechanics and explosives testing. In August 2004 he joined Louisiana State University as a doctoral student in the Petroleum Engineering department. Currently he is working at CCT, LSU, as a graduate research assistant in Grid Computing, Drilling Optimization, and Formation Evaluation research developing applications for the (DOE / LBR) Ubiquitous Computing Project (UCOMS). His current research interests include drilling optimization, vibration petrophysics, logging while drilling, finite element modeling of vibrating systems, and rock mechanics.

Gu, Shiyuan

[email-address]

	Harhad, Farid Graduate Assistant Room 300, Frey CSC Department: Computer Science
I'm a Ph.D. student in Computer Science. I've also joined the CFD-IGERT program. I obtained my bachelor's degree in Computer Science from LSU with a minor in Mathematics. My research interests are Scientific Visualization, Computational Fluid Dynamics, and Human-Computer Interaction. My faculty advisors are: Dr. Bijaya Karki, Dr. Brygg Ullmer, Dr. Sumanta Acharya, and Dr. Werner Benger.

Huang, Wan

Department: Computer Science
[email-address]

Faculty Advisor: Tevfik Kosar

Huang, Wei
Graduate Assistant

Room 401, Choppin Hall
Department: Biological Sciences
[email-address]

Faculty Advisor: Shantenu Jha

Jiang, Lei

Room 204, Johnston hall
Department: Center for Computation & Technology
+1 225 578 7434
[email-address]

Faculty Advisor: Gabrielle Allen

Lei has a BS degree in Computer Science from University of Science and Technology of China and MS degree in Applied Computer Science from Wuhan University, China. He joined CCT in July 2008, and is now working on CyberTools project with the focus on environment transport. More generally, his research interests include computational intelligence, neural networks, and their applications in high-performance computing and problem solving in engineering, environment science and physics.

Kumar, Suman
Graduate Assistant

Department: Computer Science
[email-address]

Faculty Advisor: Seung-Jong Park
http://www.cct.lsu.edu/about/focus/lanet/

I got my Undergraduate degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), BHU, India. During my undergraduate studies I published a few research papers in international journals and conferences in solid state and microwave devices. I also worked in industries in areas Oracle PL-SQL, J2E and Databases. Currently I am a PhD Student and a member of LANet group, LSU in computer science. My research interests include High Speed Networks, Wireless Sensor Networks, Network Modelling and Simulation, High Performance Computing, and Algorithm Optimization.

Namala, Gayathri
Graduate Assistant

[email-address]

Faculty Advisor: Seung-Jong Park

Nan, Zhe

[email-address]

Supervisor: Susanne Brenner

OConnell, Sean

[email-address]

Supervisor: Gabrielle Allen

Reiser, Armin
Graduate Assistant

Room 244, Johnston Hall
[email-address]

Supervisor: Susanne Brenner

Thalakokkula, bharadhwaj

[email-address]

Supervisor: Gabrielle Allen

Toole, Cornelius
Graduate Student

Room 320, Frey CSC
Department: Computer Science
[email-address]

Faculty Advisor: Brygg Ullmer

I'm a doctoral student within the Computer Science Department. I completed Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Computer Science at Jackson State University respectively in 2003 and 2005 and started here at the LSU/CCT Fall 2005. Currently I'm investigating brokering techniques to help manage distributed visualization applications as part of the Enlightened Project. I'm also working with the Tangible Visualization Group to find ways to apply brokering and other distibuted computing concepts to support co-located, computer-supported, collaborative use of tangible interaction devices in scenarios such as remote visualization and teleconference sessions. My research interests include visualization, human computer interfaces, distributed computing and design.

Yin, Dengpan
Graduate Assistant

Room 244, Johnston
Department: Center for Computation & Technology
[email-address]

Supervisor: Tevfik Kosar

Zhang, Qian

[email-address]

Undergraduate Students

Buleu, Ana Elena
Research Undergraduate Student

Room 332, Johnston Hall
Department: Electrical Engineering
[email-address]

Supervisor: Werner Benger
Faculty Advisor: Gabrielle Allen

I have started working at CCT, and doing my undergraduate degree at LSU in January 2006. I am a Sophomore now in the Engineering College. I worked in the Performance Group for a couple of months, learning how to deal with Cactus benchmarking. Since July 2006, I have worked in the Visualization Group under the supervision of Shalini Venkataraman, and Dr. Werner Benger. I am dealing with C/C++ programming, and the HDF5 file format. I attended the Grid Computing Workshop in South Padre, Texas, in the summer of 2006.

	Lewis, John Undergraduate Student Room 332, Johnston Hall Department: Computer Science Supervisor: Gabrielle Allen Faculty Advisor: Gabrielle Allen
John began working in the CCT department as a portal developer for the Ubiquitous Computing and Monitoring Systems (UCoMS) in the fall of 2005. Recently he has been given the honor to present his research at the Student Undergraduate Research Forum (SURF) summer of 2006 and the Argonne Symposium for Undergraduates in Science, Engineering and Mathematics fall of 2006.

	Losso, Mariel Undergraduate Student Room 343, Frey CSC Department: Electrical and Computing Engineering Faculty Advisor: Brygg Ullmer
I am a senior majoring in Computer Engineering, with a minor in Computer Science. I am working for the Viz team doing various work from soldering to researching capabilities and functions of the microprocessors that we use.

	Miceli, Chris Undergraduate Student Department: Computer Science Supervisor: Hartmut Kaiser Faculty Advisor: Shantenu Jha
I am a CSC major working with Dr. Hartmut Kaiser of incorporating a complete series tests into the C++ implementation of the SAGA api. I am a interesting in kernels and management of resources.